The tower was built in the fifteenth century and was used by the Reverend William Derham in the first accurate measurement of the speed of sound.

Monumental brasses include one to former vicar Edward Foley Evans, who died in 1933.

The main monument is a large stone effigy of Sir Gabriel Poyntz (1538–1608) and his wife Etheldreda, who are lying on a marble tomb chest.

Over them is a wooden tester without column supports, decorated with images of the sun, moon, clouds and stars.

[3] The organ is a 2 manual Brindley & Foster instrument currently in the care of Martin M Cross builders (Grays) and on which the pitch is rather sharp at A=460.